The Young Bucks Talks About The Bullet Club ‘Leader vs. Leader’ Story

In an interview with ESPN, Nick and Matt Jackson, the Young Bucks, spoke about their match with the Golden Lovers at NJPW Strong Style Evolved and the ‘leader vs. leader’ story in the Bullet Club. Here are highlights:

Matt Jackson on Cody Rhodes and Kenny Omega building their characters: “They have so much passion for wrestling. Cody is a guy who’s never off. He’s always on. He’s always thinking about wrestling. Kenny’s the same. He’s very passionate about the business. They think of everything outside of just wrestling matches. They think of building characters so they’re real. Like real-life things you can reach out, touch and grab. It’s not just, ‘Here’s a match.’ It’s, ‘Here’s a person.’ And Kenny will build that person from the ground up, and so will Cody. People are so attached to these characters because they’re real. Because there are elements of what Kenny is in real life in there and same with Cody. Cody’s just the perfect bad guy and Kenny’s the perfect good guy. I think that’s why it works so well.”

Nick Jackson on the original plans for the leader vs. leader story: “It was supposed to be Kenny and Adam Cole, to be honest. That was the first original BC split that we pictured. But Adam left to WWE, so we’re like, ‘Man, we need to do it, but who could we do it with?'”

Matt Jackson on how Kenny and Cody compliment each other: “God, Cody’s the perfect foil for Kenny. I love Adam and he’s awesome, but I feel like Cody’s character — the way he plays the villain and the bad guy is such a great contrast to the way Kenny is a good guy — so the two are just so perfect when they’re onscreen together. When Cody’s doing his manipulation.”

Matt Jackson on wanting to have matches in the group: “We helped to make the match happen, us and Kenny. We’ve always just selfishly wanted to do the match. Before all this stuff happened, we’re like, ‘How are we ever gonna wrestle you? It won’t make any sense. Well, I guess we’re going to have to do an entire angle just so we can have this match.’ Literally that’s a reason for why we’re doing what we’re doing right now with this story, so we could have these matches. Like, ‘Man, we’ve always wanted to wrestle each other; it’s really difficult, though, because we’re all a group. Well, let’s do something different. Let’s do a multilayered, soap-opera storyline that is sort of like a HBO series. In doing so, you get a dream match out of it.'”